The premiere of the opera The Shining, with music by Paul Moravec and libretto by Mark Campbell, was presented by kind permission of Subito Music Corporation, publisher and copyright owner, and with the kind permission of Stephen King.

“…If the [premiere] evening’s chief question was can a legitimate, engrossing opera be fashioned from an unlikely source — a popular horror-thriller tale...the answer offered in this eye-filling multimedia production with its score by Paul Moravec and deft libretto by Mark Campbell, [is] a resounding yes…”
— The Star Tribune